In Mac OS Leopard, are there any maintenance programs that I could run

I recently had a failed attempt at installing Final Cut Studio, which has been resolved, but the filed install has left things "weird". The computer crashes ALL the time, there are left over mini-programs that I can't seem to get rid of unless I force it to delete, and the computer, which is a Core 2 Extreme 2.8 GHz, is slower than my iBook on some different tasks. The computer has been taking forever to shut down and boot up.
Any ideas? If not, i will just reinstall all of mac os on it.

Have you updated to OS 10.5.3 yet? It fixes a bug that prevented reinstallation of the Combo updater. If not, download the Combo updater rather than using software update and then install it. If you have used software update, download the Combo updater and reinstall it.
There are some applications such as AppDelete or AppCleaner (both free) or AppZapper (shareware) which claim to clean out all the bits and pieces of an application. There is always the old-fashioned way, "search and destroy" using finder.
There are several free utility programs that accomplish much of what has been recommended that you do in Terminal and some other operations that are useful. OnyX, IceClean, Yasu, Maintenance and a host of others are available. Check them out at MacUpdate or VersionTracker.
I have experienced some failed installs with a couple of apps in Leopard that, I think, were related to some permissions issues. Check the permissions of all of the Final Cut Studio items, including any files that it created and trash the .plist file for it that should be found at User > Library > Preferences.
If that does not improve the situation I would be inclined to uninstall Final Cut Studio and do a fresh install of it.
Oh, be prepared for the permissions repair in any of the utilities such as OnyX to take quite some time. Leopard is incredibly slow at permissions repair in my experience with it to date.
Good Luck!

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